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A summertime snack – Budapest style
Posted by: | CommentsI keep playing back the clip of Stephen referring to it by its Hungarian name, and I haven’t the foggiest at how to spell it it appears that he was attempting to say “Hideg Meggyleves“.
Anyhow, here’s one blogger’s recipe:
Monday, July 18, 2005
Hungarian Cold Sour Cherry Soup
by Annamaria Kovacs1 24 oz. glass jar of sour cherries, already stemmed and pitted, drained. You can use the light syrup as a cold fruit drink, it’s traditional
6 cups of water (by the way, if in a hard water area like us, do everyone in your family a favor and invest in either a BRITA pitcher or a filter on your kitchen tap. The results of using filtered water for coffee, soups and just plain ol’ drinking water are rather dramatic…)
UPDATE:
And thanks to thisniss, we’ve found out that there’s a recipe on Wikiality.com. Wikiality – it tastes so truthy it must be fattening.
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I would have called it the “Coalition of the Thrilling.”
Posted by: | CommentsOR
The tour will be called “Def to America”, but MC Rove will not be the opening act on our tour. Phew!
Thanks to Ms Interpreted, we now know that the name of Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi’s band is “Coalition of the Willing.” I am still laughing over that. In case you missed the link to his resumé:
Musical Interests
Ambassador Simonyi is a long-time supporter of rock and roll music. He played lead guitar in his own band in his youth. Upon arrival in Washington, he formed a band, called the “Coalition of the Willing.” They have preformed on various occasions, of which the following stand out: the Knitting Factory in New York; Walter Reed Military Hospital to honor coalition troops; and the House of Blues in Cleveland that raised $150K for victims of Hurricane Katrina. He has also performed occasionally in Fort Worth, Atlanta, Iowa City and various Washington, DC, clubs.
Here’s another article of interest from the Embassy of Hungary in Washington site. Be sure to catch the slideshow, and check out the members of the rest of his band.
December 21, 2006
A Diplomatic Riff
Ambassador by day, rock star by nightAndrea Noble – Washington Prism
It’s expected for ambassadors to be boastful of their diplomatic and personal achievements. The Swiss ambassador to the United States speaks six languages while the Ghanaian ambassador started his own medical clinic in the U.S. before his appointment. However Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi’s hobbies are not quite as characteristic of a diplomat. He fronts a rock and roll band.
Initially entranced with rock music in his youth after hearing bootlegged copies of The Beatles’ records in communist Hungary, Simonyi, 54, now sings and plays guitar in the band Coalition of the Willing. The band plays renditions of classic rock songs by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, the Doobie Brothers, and Traffic for charity events.
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Forget the Nobel Peace Prize, I want one for “shredding axe.”
Posted by: | CommentsWho would have thought that András Simonyi, the Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S., would be such a wicked guitar warrior? I too was as shocked as Stephen’s audience when he came back on TCR to defend his country’s ability to rock like any other freedom-loving country. For those of you interested in some background behind His Excellency’s badness, here’s an article I dug up.
How rock ‘n’ roll freed the world
By Bill Nichols, USA TODAY
Posted 11/6/2003 7:53 PMWASHINGTON — Like countless other teenagers over the past 40 years, Andras Simonyi wanted to be a rock star when he was young. He vividly remembers hearing the Beatles for the first time — a scratchy record of All My Loving — when he was 11, in a school gym in Denmark. “It caught me,” he says. “And it hasn’t let up since.”
Simonyi’s dreams of rock stardom didn’t pan out. He returned to his native Hungary and grew up to become an economist, diplomat and, most recently, Hungary’s ambassador to the United States. But he never lost his passion for rock ‘n’ roll. Saturday night, in a major address at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, he will try to explain why.
Could you imagine András Simonyi and Peter Frampton starting a band? That’s a Stairway to world peace.
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Episode 3046 (04/10/07)
Posted by: | Comments“Turn-offs? Phony people. Turn-ons? People who watch my program. And sex.“
Rad Medicine: Young people are choosing to live without health insurance, and I’m not just talking about my staff.
The Word: Hip Replacement
Wailing Walls: Author Jeannette Walls discusses her memoir (The Glass Castle) about growing up with homeless parents. The bright side? At least they can’t send you to your room.
Home-ownphobic: We didn’t have time yesterday but we’ll talk about the bursting housing bubble. Now there’s no better time to buy real estate with NO! MONEY! DOWN!
Guest plug:
In closing: *on guitar, András Simonyi!* Sir, would you play us out? That’s it for the Report everybody! Good night!
NOTABLE MOMENTS
- More Britons get their news from Teletubbies than from any other source.
- Believe me, this guy knows how to keep a stiff upper lip. That lip is where moustaches go to die.
- God help us if Iran ever develops the wet willie.
- You don’t build an empire on feelings. Unless you’re Oprah.
- It’s time that Britain went through “Camillification.”
- America, there is a crisis in healthcare, in that America believes that there is a crisis in healthcare.
- It brings us to socialized healthcare, and that would make us no better than Canadians.
- Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, teen idol?
- Stephen “sets it straight” about his Colbert On the Ert remarks on the Today Show with Matt Lauer.
- “The ‘budapests’ and their God-awful guitar playing.”
- It was Ching Chong Ding Dong, all along.
- The Big Red Button in Bears and Balls! “We’re all going to die!”
- Make your house smell like a willing sexual partner.
- 3 rules of real estate: Location! Location! BEES! – Do not buy a house filled with bees.
- On the next Bears and Balls: Selling your kidneys – do you really need two?
- Homelessness is still a big problem in the United States. Is there a better way to solve it than just ignoring it?
- Celebrities are essentially unicorns. They aren’t real.
- I came up with Filliam H. Muffman. What about Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon? How about “Jeese?” Anytime they show up, you can just go *disdainfully* “Jeeese…”
- I don’t see why I have to apologize. Hungarians just can’t shred…
- Stephen is interrupted by Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi and his guitar playing. Stephen and his audience are genuinely rocked and awed.
- All it takes to make Stephen apologize is a wicked shredding and a finely crafted axe. Another diplomatic crisis averted through the power of Rock n’ Roll.
- Simonyi: “The Finns, they’re great people and all, but frankly, their guitar playing, it just SUCKS.” (And we know that Finland is full of some serious Conan O’Brien fans…)
Tasteful Gentleman Suit Report: Black pinstriped suit, mauve shirt with single silver stud cuffs. Eggplant tie with lavender blush & rose icon pattern.
Rad Medicine: Young people are living without health insurance — and not just Stephen’s staff.
British Hostages: Once the Brits were emotionless stoics, but now they wear their emotions on their pinafores.
Hip Replacement: When people start following “The Young Invincibles,” health care will go the way of acid washed jeans.
Stephen’s Racial Slurs: Imitation is a form of flattery. Just think of Stephen as a tribute band with racial stereotypes.
Bears and Balls: Home: If you’re selling your home, fill it with an enticing aroma — like pheromones. Works for deer hunting.
Jeanette Walls: Gossip columnist Jeanette Walls tells Stephen about growing up in a homeless family.
Editor’s Pick!
The Apology: Stephen finds out that Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi can shred on the guitar.
This video expires: 05/10/2007
I CALLED IT!
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CALLING ALL HUNGARIANS!
Posted by: | CommentsFaithful reader Hungirl has tipped me off to a news article about the Hungarian bridge, but it needs to be translated. Can someone be super kind and translate this for this blog’s readers in the Comments section below?
Megyeri híd lesz a Colbert híd
2006. szeptember 27., szerda 11:52
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Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi’s Visit to The Colbert Report
Posted by: | CommentsHungarian Ambassador András Simonyi was on The Colbert Report this Thursday, and this is what the Hungarian Embassy’s site has to say about the event:
Hungarian Ambassador in the Colbert Report
September 15, 2006
Ambassador András Simonyi was the guest of Stephen Colbert in Comedy Central’s Colbert Report last night.
The Hungarian Government launched an online contest to name a new bridge (M0 bridge) over the Danube last Spring. In the past three months, Stephen Colbert has discussed this topic numerous times in his show. After the initial weeks of voting when American actor Chuck Norris had been in the lead, Colbert “instructed the Colbert Nation” to vote for him. The first and second rounds of the poll both resulted in Stephen Colbert winning the race, the first time by 17 million votes.
After the Government of Hungary had closed the online contest on September 8, Colbert invited Ambassador Simonyi to his show.
Here’s some pictures featured on the Hungarian Embassy’s site (click on the thumbnail for amazingly high-res photos)
András Simonyi and Stephen Colbert on TCR set
András Simonyi and Stephen Colbert with Official Proclamation
Stephen Colbert’s Hungarian Passport
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Episode 2114 (9/14/2006)
Posted by: | Comments“If you only watch one Comedy Central show in the next half hour, make it this one. This is The Colbert Report!”
My White Friend Allen: Reporting gossip, George “Macaca” Allen’s “Ethnic Rally”, Hungarian Bridge update, Hungary’s ambassor to the United States, András Simonyi (Hungary Man, Hungary Hungary Hiplomat)
Waste Of Space: Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger
- Wag: Northern Colorado Coach
- Wag: NASA
- Wag: The American Dream
Jock In A Hard Place: Bill Simmons, ESPN’s “The Sports Guy”
Guest Plug:
In closing: Total numbers of bridges named after me in Hungary – 1, Total number of bridges named after me in America – 0. Get on it, Nation!
NOTABLE MOMENTS
- Wow, that’s a sexy photo …
- That looks like the cover of a nightgown novel … can we make that look like the cover of a nightgown novel?
- Jimmy, make them kiss!
- Minicaca
- My smile says “I’m happy to be with my ethnic friend!”
- I turned him into “Walker Texas Loser”.
- No Photo Available
- Official Proclamation!!!
- Congratulations, Stephen! Love the Native garb!
- Most Likely to make a career harshly judging others
- Wagging the finger in zero gravity
- Licorice hammock? Yowza
- What the fark is going on?
- This would be much more interesting if I watched any sports other than the Tour de France
- I say Basketball on Ice
Fangirl Suit Report: Charcoal gray suit, Light peach shirt with barrel cuffs, Goldenrod solid colored tie
Full set of screencaps at WonkyEar.com
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The Stephen Colbert Bridge – VOTING IS OVER!
Posted by: | CommentsVoting seems to be over for the voting for the Hungarian bridge, and here’s the votes as they stand currently:
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Stephen Colbert híd 93163 [25%]
Jon Stewart híd 85171 [23%]
Zrínyi híd 83966 [23%]
Eötvös híd 37042 [10%]
Perl-Script híd 17354 [5%]
Chuck Norris híd 15363 [4%]
Whoo hoo! We seem to be in the lead, and the site has disabled the ability to vote. If any of my Hungarian readers can verify that the voting is indeed over, that would be great.
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